I got an interesting question the other day that I thought might be of value to the general public.  The requestor thought there might be a problem with the Linux scheduler, but that really wasn’t the issue: I’m using FEDORA 7 at work and I have run into a problem […]

Sockets vs pipes vs ordinary files

I tend to work very much to myself on projects.  I get help from the open source community via discussion forums or mailing lists, but in-house (at work or at home) I’m pretty much on my own to figure things out.  This has led to some development practices which work […]

Debuggers vs debug libraries

It’s interesting to find old friends and coworkers reading my blog, mostly since I write it for myself and really don’t expect anyone else to read it.  But I guess a few do. So it was a pleasant surprise to hear from Charlie Sauer today.  Charlie was director of product […]

Another look back: the history of Dell Unix

I downloaded Google’s Android SDK today.  The kit is about 55MB for Linux and was a breeze to get running.  The kit comes with an emulator that displays a generic phone with the Google UI.  The majority of the online help is geared towards creating applications that run on Android.  […]

Google’s Android – a first look

I’m building Minimyth on a number of machines in order to debug a problem with the build I’m having on Fedora 7.  The machines are running FC5 and FC6 and are on an internal network that connects to the Internet via a proxy.  Minimyth’s source is a build system whose […]

A little tip: wget through a proxy

I’m finally getting back to using my Epia M10000 board as a MythTV frontend.  The goal here is to configure it to run with a CF card for booting and a wireless card to communicate with the backend, and use the TV-output connected to our TV in the living room.  […]

Bringing up MiniMyth on an EPIA M10000 using wireless

My main system at work is up to date now, thanks to some help with missing multimedia tools and various other applications.  Two sites helped with this: The Fedora 7 Installation Guide and Fedora 7: Installing multimedia Support.  Both are well written and very helpful, but not absolutely complete.  Neither […]

Fedora 7: The missing applications

I’ve upgraded pretty much all my systems, both at home and at work, to F7 now.  I’m not completely pleased with it – the issues with the intel driver on my laptop are still a problem.  But something that is more prevalent across all machines is general, perceived performance.  I […]

Fedora 7 performance issues

Well, I’m getting further along.  I now understand how to use the intel driver better, well enough to setup dual head dynamically using xrandr.  But there is a serious limitation that makes me think either the Intel guys don’t understand X11 or there is a shift in Xorg away from […]

i915GM/Fedora 7: Dual head success with intel driver, but ...

I posted a question about getting my i915GM graphics working on my laptop with Fedora 7.  Kevin Fenzi of tummy.com, who works on the Fedora project, suggested trying a stock xorg.conf config then plugin the VGA output and do xrandr –auto.   The stock xorg.conf uses the intel driver, which he […]

i915GM and Fedora 7: intel bad, i810 good

I posted some queries about getting dual head working with my laptop, which uses the Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller, aka i915GM.  Under FC5 the i810 X.org driver supported dual head AND TV-out.  But I’m having a problem getting dual head working under F7 with either the i810 […]

i915 dual head configuration (FC5 – F7 doesn’t work yet)

While making notes on my upgrade to Fedora 7 I discovered that my WYSIWIG editor in WordPress 2.2.1 was seriously broken.  When I hit the Save or Save and Continue Editing buttons I was told that navigating away from the current page would lose all my edits.  So I had […]

Another upgrade issue: TinyMCE Editor in WordPress 2.2.1